On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 13:27, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mick wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I'm asked for a desktop antivirus (the box is running KDE) but I have >> never >> used an antivirus on Linux. This page that I googled up shows a number of >> them: >> >> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-linux-antivirus-programs/ >> >> Meanwhile, portage only lists clamav under app-antivirus/. >> >> The machine in question is running kmail to receive/send messages from ISP >> mail servers and ssmtp to send log messages for relaying via said ISP. >> >> What have you tried and what would you recommend for such a desktop setup? > > I have to agree with most everyone else on this one. You don't really need > a anit-virus software to protect yourself. I do think it is good that you > want to protect others by catching them while on your machine and then you > know not to spread them around to others who can be infected. I used to do > this a long time ago but I have policies here about sending messages to > others. Mostly, I don't do it unless I know it is virus free. If I get a > video that is funny or something, I find it on youtube and just forward a > link to that. I'm sure youtube checks its stuff to be sure it is clean. > > If you set up a process like this, you shouldn't spread anything but you do > have to think before hitting forward too. I think people have figured out I > don't forward just anything so I don't get a lot of "junk" anymore. > > I do agree on using AVG as someone else posted. I have that on my brothers > XP box. He likes it better than Norton that he used to pay for. If you can > get that running on Linux, then that would be great. Another pretty good > one that I used to use was f-prot but I think AVG would be better still. >
Nod32 is nice, but you need to patch dazuko into your kernel for it to work in real-time.
